Editing Steve Miller Band (section)

===Early years and formation (1966–1967)===
Steve Miller relocated to [[San Francisco]] in 1966 after spending time in [[Chicago]], where he had performed with blues musicians and absorbed the city's vibrant electric blues scene. Upon arriving in San Francisco, he assembled the '''Steve Miller Blues Band''', which quickly became a fixture of the burgeoning Haight-Ashbury counterculture. Early members included guitarist [[Boz Scaggs]], who had been a childhood friend of Miller's in [[Dallas, Texas]]. The group built a devoted following playing ballrooms such as the [[Fillmore Auditorium]] and [[Winterland Ballroom]], often sharing bills with [[Jefferson Airplane]] and [[the Grateful Dead]].